Quotes on Wealth

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Wealth comes from knowing_x000D_ what others do not know.

If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.